Pursuing Metropolitan Police Car

The standard blue-and-white Metropolitan Police car accelerates unevenly behind the gyrocopter, its twin rear lights flickering red in the dusk. Its radio crackles with orders initiated by the Doctor’s planted transmission—every turn of its tyres on asphalt responding to the crystal’s false withdrawal commands. Unlike the olive-drab UNIT pursuit vehicles already operating near the countryside, this car is visibly civilian, its roof-mounted beacon flashing as it weaves onto the countryside lane. Its intervention is brief but decisive, diverting Lupton’s route into terrain where UNIT’s tactical Land Rovers cannot follow.